Improvement in horse hay-forks



B. F. HISERT.

Hay Fork. l No. 39.732. 'e l Patented Sept. 1, 1863.

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UNITED lSmfrEs PATENT OEEIcE.

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IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE HAY-FORKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,732, dated September 1, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, B. F. HISERT, of. Nor ton Hill, in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse Pitch-Forks 5 and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a partot' this specification, in which- Fignre 1 is a back View of my invention 5 Fig. 2,f a vertical section of the same, taken in the line m x, Fig. 15 Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 45 Fig. 4, a section ofthe same, taken in theline g z, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to anew'andimproved mode of securing or attaehingthe tines ofthe fork to the head of the same, whereby a very strong and durable fork is obtained with less weight thanusual.

.i The invention consists in having the inner ends of the tines curved so as to wholly or partially extend around the head of the fork, and securing the curved ends of the tines to the head by means of bolts and eyes orsockets, as hereinafter fully set forth.

The most vulnerable part of a horse-pitch fork is the head,to which the tines are attached, Y the latter passing through the head, and therei by having a tendency to weaken the same, and

involving the necessity of bolts passing transversely through the head to strengthen it or prewhich is of wood, and B the handle or arm,

framed centrally into the head A.

C is a bail, the ends of which are tted in eyes a a on the head, and D is a latch which secures the bail to the handle or arm, the hoist- These parts comprise one form or" kind of horse-pitchforks 5 but my invention is applicable to all kinds in which a Wooden head, A, is employed.

metal.

Vhead and through theextremeendsbof the tines, i

which are ilattened to receive them, the ends of the bolts F being headed onthe ends b ofthe tines5 or-they may extend through the ends b snfticicntly far to have screw-threads cnt on them to receive nuts, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. By this arrangement it will be seen that the tines are not weakened in consequence ot' being made small to pass through the head A, as in the ordinary pitchforks, and the heads are/not liable to be split in consequence thereof. I can make a much lighter head and have it far more strong and durable than those ot' the ordinary horse-pitchforks.

I do not confine myself to the precise con. struction` herein shown and described. The inner ends of the tines, for instance, may ex 4tend a greater or less distance aronnd the head A and pass from the front' side of the latter over vto the back, and the eyes a', instead of being formed on the bolts F, may be made separately and with plates for the bolts F to pass through. These modifications, however, would be but equivalents ofthe plan rst described, and shown in the drawings.

Having thus described `my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The securing of the tines E to the headA of the fork by having the inner ends or parts of the tines curved so as to extend wholly or partially around the head, and having eyes or sockets c fitted on the tines and secured to the B. F. HISERT.

Witnesses: GEORGE A. STONE, PLATEBARKER. 

